That's just turning votes into a convoluted reddit-gold / money value. If I cared enough, I'd make myself moderator by just buying a ton of reddit gold for myself.

If I were too poor to make a big difference in reddit gold accounts, then I'd be forced to move to a different webpage without any power to make a change on Reddit.

Lose/lose from all sides.

I had enough of R.gold to give out meaningless awards to random people. I never paid R. any money and don't have a popular account by any means.